Woman injured when car goes down embankment in Leominster

Wednesday

Jan 16, 2013 at 6:00 AM

A woman was injured Tuesday when the car she was driving went off the road on Water Street and tumbled down an embankment.

Police said that around 3:15 p.m. a 49-year-old woman was traveling down the dead-end portion of Water Street and appeared to be speeding. She apparently lost control of the car, which went through a guardrail and down an embankment about 120 feet. The 1999 Saturn came to rest on its side.

Firefighters were able to get the woman out of the car, and she was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester, with injuries that police said were not life-threatening.